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G. WINSHIP.

Ctton Cleaner and Condenser.

No. 232,096. Patented'Sept. 7,1880.

N,PETERS. PHOTO-UTHOGRAPHER, WASHINGTON, n c

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE WINSHIP, OF ATLANTA, GEORGIA, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND ROBERT WINSHIP.

COTTON CLEANER AND CONDENSER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 232,096, dated September 7, 1880.

Application led April 1, 1880.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE WiNsHIP, a citizen of the United States, residing at Atlanta, in the county of Fulton and State of Georgia, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Cotton Cleaners and Oondensers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to that class of cotton cleaners and condensers that have an extension or separate chamber in which a wire screen or perforated metal cylinder revolves, and to which cylinder the cotton, after pass ing the saws and brushes, is conveyed through a spout or tunnel, the impurities, such as dust, tine trash, 8mo., being sifted through the revolving cylinder, and discharged through an opening in the bottom ot' the extension-chamber, while the lint is depositedin a layer upon the surface of the cylinder, and then stripped oft and delivered outside the chamber by a pair of clotting-rolls. i

In such machines as heretofore constructed I have observed that there is a liability that some of the cotton delivered from the doftingrolls will be caught and drawn under tbc bottom roll and blown out with the dust. This happens particularly when the cotton becomes piled up in rear ot' the condenser.

It is the object of my invention to overcome this difficulty, and accordingly I have modited the construction of the delivery end of the condenser by removing a part of the casing or planking below the rollers, and providing a secondary casing partly underneath the irst, leaving a small portion of the revolving screen exposed between the two, as I will now set forth in detail by reference to the accom- (No model.)

pan yin g drawing, which is a perspective View, partly in section, ot' so much of a cotton cleaning and condensing apparatus as is necessary to illustrate the construction and mode of operation of my improvement.

A indicates a portion ot' the ordinary casing immediately under the dofling-roll, and impinging against it.

B indicates. a secondary casing, which extends to the base of the condenser below and impinges at its top against the revolving screen S. Whenever any cotton is caught by the lower dofting-roller and carried under or behind the casing A it will be met by a suii'icient blast from the revolving screen to causeV it to pass down bet-Ween the two casings; but should any cotton adhere to the screen it will be cleared off by the secondary casing.

' I provide on either side strips O, which turn the blast toward the center of the condenser, and prevent small particles of cotton being blown out at either side and wasted.

Having thus described the nature, object, and construction of my improvement, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination, with the dofiing-rolls and condensing-cylinder, of the partial casing A and the secondary casing B, subst-antially as described.

2. The combination, with the dofng-rolls and condensing-cylinder, ofthe partial casing A, the secondary casing B, and the strips C, substantially as described.

GEORGE WINSHIP.

Witnesses:

WM. M. WILLiAMs, JOHN RHEA. 

